Christine Marion Fraser Bücher

Im Januar 1923, mitten in einem Schneesturm auf der Insel Rhanna, wird Shona geboren. Ihre Mutter stirbt kurz nach der Geburt, was ihren Vater, Fergus McKenzie, in Trauer zurücklässt. Zu stolz, um seine Gefühle zu zeigen, und aus Angst, sich in seine Tochter zu verlieben, lässt er Shona unter der Obhut von Mirabelle, der alten Haushälterin, aufwachsen. Shona entwickelt sich zu einem schönen Mädchen mit strahlend blauen Augen und rotblonden Haaren. Mirabelle ist ihr Zufluchtsort, wenn die Geheimnisse des Erwachsenwerdens zu schwer werden. Auch Niall, der Sohn von Doktor McLachlan, steht ihr stets zur Seite. Ihre Kindheitsfreundschaft blüht in der weiten Natur von Rhanna auf und entwickelt sich zu einer tiefen, verbotenen Liebe, die Fergus nicht akzeptieren kann. Doch allmählich beginnt sein Herz, sich für eine neue Frau zu öffnen. Im Sommer 1939, mit der drohenden Gefahr des Krieges, meldet sich Niall als Freiwilliger. Inmitten der exzentrischen und warmherzigen Gemeinschaft von Rhanna, mit ihren eigenen Traditionen und Tragödien, wartet Shona auf seine Rückkehr.

Allein auf der sturmumtosten Insel Kinvara träumt der Leuchtturmwärter Robbie nur von einem Menschen: von Morna, seiner schönen Geliebten mit den grünen Augen. Ein Frauenschicksalsroman vor grandioser Landschaft! Eine schottische Maeve Binchy.

Für die eng verbundene Gemeinschaft von Rhanna schien die kleine Insel in den friedlichen Hebriden von den Schrecken des Krieges entfernt. Für Shona McKenzie würde die Heimkehr im Urlaub die Gelegenheit bieten, sich von dem Albtraum des Bombenangriffs und von ihrem gebrochenen Herzen zu erholen. Dann stürzte der deutsche Bomber ab.

Secure in the loving contentment of her marriage to Lorn, Ruth felt her happiness was complete. And she was thrilled to hear that her oldest friend, Rachel, planned a visit to Rhanna. Now a successful composer and concert violinist, Rachel was coming back to her native island for a summer's rest. To Ruth's surprise, Lorn was strangely unenthusiastic about their childhood friend's return. Rachel's arrival was to bring Ruth more heartache than she could ever have imagined, and would estrange her from the island community she loved. Yet no matter how far she travelled, the Song of Rhanna would always be calling her home...

Explores the relationship between the recently widowed minister and the new doctor on the Hebredean island of Rhanna in the mid 1960's.

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Evie Grainger has left behind her beloved Scottish countryside to live with her husband, Davie, and her parents in the Close. In desperately hard conditions, she must fight to bring up her children and keep her family together as the poverty of Glasgow in the twenties threatens to destroy already fragile family relationships.

It is 1968, and after twenty years of marriage, farmer Fergus McKenzie and his beloved Kirsteen are about to be parted for the first time as Kirsteen sets off for Glasgow to help nurse a friend's mother. Fergus knows he'll miss her more than anything, but with his friends and family around him, and his faithful Border collie Heinz at his side, he reckons he can survive. But when a visitor appears dramatically at the farmhouse in the shape of a beautiful young woman, routine turns into chaos and gives rise to avid speculation throughout the close-knit community. They are all fascinated by the mystery guest - none more so than Fergus, whose emotions are thrown into turmoil as he is forced to choose between loyalty to Kirsteen and the tempting attractions of youth, while his passions are played out under the watchful eyes of the islanders.

The wild childhood of a Glasgow tenement urchinBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child. Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning to avoid her hardworking, hard-drinking one-eyed father, making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins, Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared. Until she was struck down by a terrible illness.Suddenly, her wild days of childhood were over. A long spell in hospital completely changed her life. Now she found herself dependent on others for so many of her needs. And on top of that her mother and father died.Yet Christine was always resourceful and never once looked down. She knew that always there, if you looked hard enough, was some blue up above the chimneys.

Set in rural Aberdeenshire. This story concerns the James King Grant family, and their daughter Evelyn's love for two men, Gillan Forbes, heir of the local landowner, and Johnny Burns, the son of a farmer.

In the winter of 1917, the Grant family moves to Renfrewshire to work at Dunmarnock House, home of Sir Richard Baird and his wife Elizabeth. Lovely Evie Grant is secretly pregnant by her beloved Davie Grainger, and frightened for the future. She has heard no word from him away at the war -- has he abandoned her, or is he dead? Then Davie comes home and Evie finds her love for him must be tested to its limits...

It is winter 1930. Evie Grant is mourning the death of her beloved husband, Davie, and trying to keep the family together in a Glasgow gripped by poverty and unemployment. Her sadness lifts dramatically when John Simpson comes into her life. Evie feels powerless to resist this charming man's advances and is relieved at the financial security he seems to offer. She marries him despite her family's opposition, blind to the consequences they fear...

The island of Rhanna attracted visitors for different reasons - for the beauty of the landscape, the grandeur of the sea and cliffs, the warmth of the community - and for others it was somewhere to find peace. Rachel Jodl came back looking for the security of home. By the author of King's Close.

Een rijke, romantische saga over de kleurrijke bewoners van een prachtig schots eiland In de barre winter van 1941 wordt op de grote boerenhoeve Laigmhor een nieuwe generatie McKenzie’s geboren. De geboorte van de tweeling Lorn en Lewis, zoons van Fergus en Kirsteen McKenzie, verloopt niet gemakkelijk. Maar te midden van de excentrieke, warme eilandgemeenschap van Rhanna groeien de tweelingbroers veilig op. Hun vriendschap met de twee mooie eilandmeisjes Rachel en Ruth is hecht en onverbrekelijk. De vier kinderen spelen samen, vechten samen en helpen elkaar in tijden van nood. Wanneer Lorn, Lewis, Ruth en Rachel de grens van de volwassenheid bereiken, moeten zij noodgedwongen een hardere wereld tegemoet treden; een wereld vol problemen van liefde en leed, waar hun rustige jeugd op het betoverend mooie eiland hen niet op kon voorbereiden. Toch weten de vier jonge mensen dat wat er ook mag gebeuren, of hoe ver ze ook uit elkaar zullen groeien, zij toch altijd met heel hun hart kinderen van Rhanna zullen blijven...